Item: Quickbase
Rating: 9
Author: Jim Vecht

Overall Satisfaction with QuickBase

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

[It is used for an] application built to track engagements/projects and deliverable status.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Easy to build tables and relationships
Implementation does not require significant technical training (e.g SQL familiarity)
Easy to deploy to multiple users

Cons

Table management (e.g adding or deleting columns could be easier)
Presentation allowing cell value level coloring, as opposed to row-only highlighting
More robust user role definition to allow specific field updates.

Quickbase provided the level of customization and functionality at an attainable price. There were other teams within the company using Quickbase which made the license acquisition easier. The ease of implementation and management, with the recommendation of other, existing user groups was the true selling point. We were able to get up and running without additional consulting costs.

Likelihood to Recommend

Simple user entered/updated data applications are easy to implement, such as form entry and status management. I have not spent significant effort building applications using automated data input but that seems like an area that SQL-based tools have an advantage.

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It's not complicated